Friday, November 7, 2008

In-Progress From Phoenix: Craftsman Trucks on SPEED

It looks like a nice night in Phoenix, but the stands are very empty. Perhaps, they will fill up a bit for the Craftsman Truck Series race.

Krista Voda will kick things off tonight at 7:30PM on SPEED with The Set-Up. She was originally going to have the CEO of Camping World, but NASCAR decided to push the unveiling of the new Truck Series logo back one week to Homestead.

Rick Allen will be along with Michael Waltrip and Phil Parsons to call the race at 8PM live. Ray Dunlap and Adam Alexander will cover pit road.

This should be a great race on a fun track for the trucks. Look for the continued theme of the evening being the fight between Ron Hornaday Jr. and Johnny Benson for the season championship. Hornaday has something to prove after dealing with a media-driven "steroid" scandal this season. Benson has just announced that he will not be back with Bill Davis Racing next season and might retire. There is a whole lot on the line tonight for both of these drivers.

In the meantime, there are a lot of Cup drivers crossing-over to race in the Truck Series from Phoenix. This should add some great spice to the race as they mix it up with the series regulars. SPEED puts on a good telecast with the focus on the racing and the night sky in Phoenix and the lights at the track should make it quite an evening.

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57 comments:

I will tell you why Krista is great. Because she is a knowledgeable professional the fans trust and support her. That being said, she is able to get away with "girly" stuff like showing the shoes she hoped to wear. If you had one of the "air heads" that runs around asking drivers how they "feel" in interviews, I would throw them under a bus if they showed me their shoes.

Did they really say that there were Roush guys helping with the Hornaday truck. So Ford is helping Chevy to keep Toyota from winning a championship. I guess Jack still hasn't gotten over it yet. This might deserve a follow up

Amazing. The "storyline" changed, at least for now, and the guys were able to find something else to talk about. I know that they will keep updating us on the points as they run now, but they are talking about what else is going on on the track.

while we're watching some great racing and a terrific broadcast, i have 3 questions about PIR:1. have the walls always been petty blue?2. are those inner walls safer barriers? they don't look like it to me.3. i thought tracks were going to work to get rid of gaps in the inner walls after jeff gordon's wreck. anyone know what PIR has in the plans for that?

thanks, nrf. i keep seeing that gap between the walls on the inside (coming around that pitroad corner) and it makes me uncomfortable. especially since a couple of trucks have smacked those inner walls.

There might not be many people at PIR, but at least SPEED isn't arrogant enough to pretend it isn't there by covering it up with camera shots.

After the first lap of this race, I would have never guessed the points interval would be even tighter after the race. This will make Homestead much more exciting. I just hope they'll settle it on the track, and not in the garage.

The other series should take notice and the fans should buy more tickets to these Truck races.

SPEED really makes a TV broadcast look easy. They dont miss a beat.If there is a story, they follow it. If they need replays, they have plenty to show us and what impresses me is HOW FAST they turn these replays around to show them to us.

This crew that SPEED really gets their game face on and they dont take a breath til its over.

Speed definitely knows how to put on a show with less is more and great angles and story lines when things happen on track. I just wish that the Cup and Nationwide series could be broadcasted theretoo.

such a wonderful, informative, professional broadcast from start to finish. speed has once again proven that, for my money, THEY are the leader in all things racing!

and once again: the trucks provide THE very best racing out there! if only nascar would promote the series to the same level it does cup or even n'wide so that fans could become as addicted to trucks as i am!

great job by everyone involved! thanks for a terrific friday night of racing.